Evidence session: 10am, Tuesday 21 January
- Professor Alexis Jay CBE, Chair of the Independent Inquiry
into Child Sexual Abuse
- John O'Brien, Secretary to the Independent Inquiry into Child
Sexual Abuse
The Home Affairs Committee will question Chair of the Independent
Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, Professor Alexis Jay on Tuesday
21 January.
The independent inquiry was launched in 2015 to examine how
institutions such as local authorities, religious groups and
child custodial facilities had failed in their duty of care to
protect children from sexual abuse. The final report was
published in October 2022 and made recommendations for
wide-ranging reform.
The session will consider how far the recommendations of the
report have been implemented. It will also focus on how
institutions have responded to the findings and the relationship
between the inquiry and government.
Chair of the Home Affairs Committee, Dame said:
“We have a responsibility to ensure that the results of
comprehensive public inquiries set up by government are acted
upon. For too long, children were failed by those who should have
been protecting them. We are holding this session to understand
how the government and the different institutions within the
remit of the inquiry have responded to its findings. We want to
see if there has been progress in the wide-ranging change needed
to implement a comprehensive child safety framework and what more
needs to be done.”
